Eagle Eye Tribune

Dear AES Families,

What an incredible start to the school year! In just six short days, our students have already settled into routines with smooth transitions, are working hard in their classrooms, and are building a strong sense of community both within their classrooms and across the school. It has been inspiring to see how quickly everyone has jumped into learning and supporting one another.

A big thank you to all of our families and friends of AES who purchased mums through the AES PTO fundraiser—your support means so much. The mums will be ready for pick-up mid-day on Tuesday, September 16th. More details about exact pick-up times will be sent home at the end of next week.

We are looking forward to our first full week of school ahead and all of the learning, growing, and celebrating that comes with it!

As always, if you have any questions or would simply like to check in, please feel free to reach out to me at bgibney@conval.edu or 603-588-6371.

Beth Gibney

Principal
Antrim Elementary School

9/22 - Picture Day 📸

9/25 - Open House 5:30-6:30 🏫

Thank you to all the parents who have completed their on-line first day paperwork! It helps us have the most accurate information regarding your child. There are several parents who have yet to complete this paperwork. We ask that you complete it this weekend so that our records are complete and up-to-date! If you need any help with completing this paperwork, please call us and we are happy to help. Thank you.

End 68 Hours of Hunger

It has been brought to our attention that End 68 Hours of Hunger is requiring all families who are interested in registering to do so directly with them.

If you registered for this program when you completed your First Day Packet forms, it is necessary to register directly with End 68. Clicking the link or QR Code below will take you directly to their registration page.

https://registration.end68hoursofhunger.org

Kindergarten is off to a great start! We have spent these first few days building routines and learning expectations. This week we have focused on one of Antrim’s Core Values: Cooperation. We have read stories, drawn pictures and talked about what this looks like here at school. Cooperative play stations have been a hit. We have also explored with some fun math manipulatives! We are having so much getting to know one another!

The second graders in Ms. Revaz’s class have been busy settling into our new classroom and learning the importance of treating others the way we would like to be treated. We kicked off the year with a book study of The Dot, which has helped us explore growth mindset and the power of “yet.”

Our class also has a very special guest… a monarch chrysalis that Ms. Wampler gave us!! Students will write journal entries about what it looks like, any changes we notice, and what we predict might happen next. It has been so exciting to watch and wonder together!

Our first six days in third grade have been so much fun! We learned new routines and played games to get to know each other better. We also started learning cursive handwriting—our letters are looking great already! In reading, we explored the Questioneers series and noticed all the obstacles the characters faced. Next week, we’ll think about our own Hopes and Dreams for the year. In math, we worked with partners and groups to make bar graphs and picture graphs. We’re off to great places—up, up, and away!

“Make new friends, but keep the old, One is silver and the other’s gold!” Our 4th graders returned full of energy, excited to learn, and ready to take on the important role of being AES role models for the younger students. It was wonderful to welcome back so many familiar faces, and we are thrilled to introduce a new classmate, Jacob, to our 4th-grade family. Here's to a golden year of learning and friendship!

My name is Ms. Brett, and I am the librarian here at AES. This is my second year as part of this amazing school community. This year the students will be coming to the library every three days instead of every three weeks as specials will be on a daily instead of a weekly rotation. PreK, Kindergarten and First Grade students will be able to check out one book to keep at school. Second and Third Graders will check out one book to go home and/or stay at school. Fourth Graders will check out 1-2 books, one of which may go home at a time. This year we will be learning about library skills, literature appreciation, digital citizenship and research skills among many other things!

Discovery Block: This year we are trying something new called Discovery Block. Each specialist (Wellness, Music/Art and Library) will plan a six week project unit (ex: coding, select chorus, Chess club) for kids. Students will rank their choices 1-3 and the specialists will make mixed class groups for the six weeks. Students will attend their chosen Discovery Block one day a week for six weeks and then new units will be created and the process will start over. This will provide students to take ownership over their learning and explore their own unique interests. Kindergarten will have Discovery Block on Mondays, 1-2 on Tuesdays and 3-4 on Fridays. Please reach out to any of the specialists or Beth Gibney with questions.

Library Resources at Home: Last year the PTO kindly funded a Sora e-book and audiobook subscription for the school. We have access to this until December and hope to renew it at that point. Sora can be accessed at school or at home and works just like a library. Kids can check out and read audiobooks, e-books, magazines, comics. All of the materials are selected for a PreK-4 audience. Directions for accessing Sora at home are below.

1. Download the Sora App from the Apple Store, Google Play or go to soraapp.com

2. In Sora, find our School by searching for Antrim Elementary. It should come up and say NH Schools Shared Digital Collection below it.

3. Click on Antrim Elementary School and then click on Antrim Elementary Students.

4. It will prompt you to sign in using your student’s school Google Information

1. Please reach out to your student’s teacher or to me (cbrett@conval.edu) if you need their login information

If you have any issues accessing Sora from home or any other questions/concerns/comments regarding the library please reach out to me and I will do my best to help.

10 School Street

Antrim, NH 03440

Phone: (603) 599-6371

Email: aesoffice@conval.edu

Web Page: https://aes.conval.edu/en-US

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